Re: RedHat5.1 on UX4 Motherboard

[Armin Ollig <armin data tops net>]

Try this:

Logon with your root password
then 

mount -o remount,rw /
vi /etc/fstab
sync
mount -o remount,ro /
umount -a 
init 6

good luck
-armin

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| Armin Ollig       UNIX Systems Administration       armin@tops.net  |
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On Wed, 23 Sep 1998, Dr P. Caleb Dhanasekaran wrote:

> 
> Hi,
> 
> I was editing my filesystem table from control-panel on my
> UX4 600MHz AlphaPC running RedHat Linux 5.1.  Actually, I 
> deleted an existing unused partition and repartitioned into
> 2 partitions.  After saving, I rebooted the machine.  Now
> my system hangs asking me to manually fix the /etc/fstab
> problem.  It has mounted the root filesystem as READ-ONLY
> file system and I couldn't edit the fstab in /etc.  Could anybody 
> suggest me how to fix this problem?
> 
> Thanks,
> Caleb
> 
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